Tag: film
The 100 Greatest Australian Films of All Time: Part 3 (1982-1995)
In Part 3 of our five part series on the 100 greatest Australian films of all time, we take a look at the tail end of the Australian New Wave and the birth of a new era of internationally successful film production in the 1990s. If the movies of the 70s and 80s revealed the…
Witchfinder General: How Vincent Price Resurrected a Monster
In 1967, Vincent Price traveled to Britain to make the low-budget horror film, Witchfinder General. Price wasn’t the first choice for the role, and this was a fact which 24-year-old director Michael Reeves mercilessly used to his advantage. Set in 1645, during a period of extreme turbulence and lawlessness exacerbated by the English Civil War,…
Truth and Moviemaking: Why Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ Doesn’t Work
A compelling story doesn’t necessarily make for a compelling movie. Such is the case with Rosewater (2014), Jon Stewart’s tedious, heavy-handed film documenting the harrowing detainment and torture of a Newsweek journalist during the tumult surrounding the Iranian presidential elections in 2009. The picture, based on a true story detailed in a book by Maziar…
Reviewing ‘Foxcatcher’: Bennett Miller Does It The Old Fashioned Way
Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher does not feel like a 2014 movie. The drama chronicling the bizarre relationship that developed between the enormously wealthy and enigmatic John du Pont and a pair of world champion wrestlers, Dave and Mark Schultz, feels much more like a throwback to the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, when films moved at a slower…
The 100 Greatest Australian Films of All Time: Part 2 (1971-1982)
Well here it is, Part 2 of our five part series on the 100 greatest Australian films of all time. While Part 1 focused on the earliest beginnings of the nation’s cinema through to the end of the 1960s, here we’ll be exploring the birth of the Australian New Wave in the 1970s. This was…